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1. Dear pswing:
   As one formerly inkstained wretch to one still monitoring the ceaseless ebb amd flow ot what erroneously passes all of us by as “news” and/or “events,” staged or spontaneous, as in some combustions.
   Speaking of which, don’t whisper a word of it, but, it is MY contention that the only, well, make that fundamental, reason I am such a quidnunc and alta-kocker, hey!, good Yiddish is phonetic, in these precincts is precisely because of the likes of hater-baiters who consider “beating” someone with a helium-filled? baton equates beatings-to-deaths and torched businesses with the businesspersons inside same.
   Well, in light of, in “lieu”?, double-punctuation and all, a Presidential “candidate” who promises annihilation to another nation and its people, atomization at that, as a “campaign” promise, what’s a few hater-baiters online spewing THEIR brand of hatred?
   In which light, I think it MORE than obligatory, at the very least, typos and slanguage and chitchat online license and all that jazz, to respond in kind, no not that kind of courtesy or consideration or caritas, that’s Latin, or at least so intended for all Catholics in attendance, and, for sure, NOT as in “compassion.”
   Which is to say, if Billary is vouchsafed the privilege of speaking for ALL 300-mil of us Amurrikans, geeks and gooks included, this geeky gook demurs, and demurs loudly and at length, wordily and, withal, mirthfully, as in it hurts so much when I laugh.
   Still, all of it, and all of us, such as we are or can hope to be, is amusing, non? That’s the poor-man’s “French” for I beg your par-done?
   So, (s)elect one more advocate for the people, which people?, WHAT people? Ruling peoples? The few and the fearful and the farflung and the ferocious? All of the above. And none of the many, the hopeful, the homegrown and the meek. Like our blessed peanut farmer, who has the audacity to seek justice in the face of force and tyranny, who is, in fact, an authentic “Christian” and not a rice-bowl type.
   Today’s Info Clearing House has a piece about the CIA and the Ecuador President, even MSNBC has a piece about Uribe and HIS militias. OUR militias there? Or are they merely “contractors” sans borders OR responsibilities to anything other than their own pocketbooks or “rush”-hungers.
   Speaking of errata, the guy who, logically and angrily challenges the god-king Dalai, miscounted his Tibetan sects, which by his own account, total four, not three.
   Which, nonetheless logically questions the “western” assumptions that only acknowledge the Panchen guy, though not all that much of late.
   And for Mme. Clinton, I wonder if she has heard of one Layla Anwar, who, on occasion, vents HER angst, and it appears more than authentic ANGST, about what we have already instituted in Iraq, and which she so freely and viciously, no other word for it, appears to advocate for Iran, a nation whose history and culture and accomplishments far outweigh the so-far pitiful claims of this self-anointed “empire.”
   Frank Eng
   P.S.: “pswing,” tell me, if YOU can, why those who presume to have mastered, mistressed?, the pros and cons, exactions and exactos, of “English” spelling and punctuation and grammar and syntax INSIST on their godheads in these public troughs of swilling and sweating and swearing and sneering? The lingo is still alive, and even “pidgin” will make its way into Webster’s. After all, ain’t did, diddle it?
   P.P.S.: As for “Jerry McGuire,” please tell him, please, that not only does “Scientology” NOT qualify as a
   “religion,” but THEIR godfather stole, liberally, almost the entire Freudian infrastructure, retitled references, and then proceeded to make the entire mess one more gigantic con-artist heaven. Haven? L. Ron Hubbard was a minor author of sci-fi, and his “theoretic” meanderings and maunderings about as substantive as this note.

   –Frank Eng on Apr 23, 2008

2. Must add.
   Couldn’t recall at the moment, but Hubbard’s construct was yclept “Dianetics.”
   On which frail model was mounted the Ponzi-type frenzies of ambition and loot that “Scientology” represxents. To a T.
   The German republic, apparently, recognizes the Golem for what it is, a Frankensstein’s monster of questionable antecedents.

   –Frank Eng on Apr 24, 2008

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